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I think it would be pretty hard to argue that you serve a "unified offer" (at the moment at least). The user requests the content without any promise of downloading and rendering all of the content linked, and the server happily serves the content. The fact that almost all web browsers by default (rather naively) obeys every instruction from the web server doesn't imply that the user actually agrees to render (and get tracked by) everything linked.
The problem is:
There is a market for it because the average Joe and Jane are pretty lazy and would rather touch something to unlock it than having to go through the hassle of typing and remembering (forgetting) a password. They probably don't understand the secrutiy implications of it either.
The way I see it, this looks more like an attempt by the video game industry to pass the cost of preventing cheating to the taxpayers.
tl;dr: Celecoxib is safer than previously thought for people with heart problems.
“The complexity of life” is really ambiguous. The actual headline, “Negative Emotions Are Key to Well-Being”, is much more descriptive.
Alcohol isn't very carcinogenic, but I think it's been estimated that it's the cause in a few percent of cancer cases.
> And as IBM reported a couple weeks ago, even at higher prices, Macs tend to be cheaper to own. I’m writing this on a mid-2010 non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro I bought six years ago last June. Yes, over time I increased the memory to from four to 16 gigs, took the hard drive up from 240 gigs to a terabyte Fusion drive, replaced both the battery and the keyboard when they wore out, but that still puts me only about $1600 into this device with which I have so far generated well over $1 million in revenue.
His arguments makes no sense to me. How is it cheaper to own a laptop that is expensive in the first place, but is also one of the less upgradeable ones on the market (making it more expensive to run post-warranty)?
And no, that's not what IBM reported either. They reported that Macs are cheaper to use as company PCs (which doesn't necessarily extrapolate to the laptop market as a whole).
Sounds like we have a serious case of in-group favouritism and with a hint of bandwagon effect
> You wouldn't have a cell phone, and especially a data connection, if not for the space program. And so on.
Given enough time, it would've been invented regardless. You are right that we probably would be further behind technologically if it wasn't for the space race though.